The frightening aspect of some of those mystical things is that they occur right in your physical body - upsetting the hell out of your holy system. Remember all those poor mystics (if you're into philosophy, you know what happened to B.Pascal): they were struck, truly struck and thrown out of their normal mind. How scary is that? It is not an experience you want to go through - and when it comes over you it might be a hard terrifyingly powerful jolt.

I will resist any such mystical experiences as long as I can, with the sober understanding that it might not depend on me to avoid any of it.

Please, take that away for the time being. I have a fragile mental constitution and it's already hard enough to hang on to my mere rational bearings. Jesus...

[ For those of you reading who think I am crazy, disregard and skip to the politico bits :) ]